Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years . |
| 2 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years . |
| 3 | Wilf Medlam 's labour of love has not been in vain . |
| 4 | ‘ When I tell you why I have asked you to come here , I think you may feel your journey has not been in vain , ’ he said , and his shoulders heaved , rising and falling with silent mirth . |
| 5 | Yawl has not been in perfect health this spring . |
| 6 | The impact has not been in one direction only : the political culture has served to shape political perceptions and actions , and hence to influence the nation 's political history . |
| 7 | All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents . |
| 8 | In socialist France , it is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history . |
| 9 | In socialist France , unemployment is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history . |
| 10 | ‘ Ask him , ’ I said , ‘ if Sheridan Lorrimore has ever been in any trouble that he knows of , apart from assaulting an actor at Toronto , that should have resulted in Sheridan going to jail . ’ |
| 11 | First , safety expenditure under the Government and British Rail is higher than it has ever been in British Rail 's history — it has gone up from £140 million to £200 million . |
| 12 | Much of the activity on the Tyne Tunnel Estate has always been in small warehousing and distribution depots but the two large manufacturing employers are Cape Insulation and Twinings Teas ( a subsidiary of Associated British Foods ) . |
| 13 | Although Maurice was not a Romanist nor an archaeologist — his interest has always been in medieval and later houses — he had set up a training school at Lincoln with Philip Corder as director . |
| 14 | However , money for adult education in general has always been in short supply — as the 1973 Russell Report pointed out , only just over 1 per cent of LEA expenditure was devoted to it — and art education is no exception to the general rule . |
| 15 | In Nepal , dolphin habitat has traditionally been in deep clear water with swift currents , but hydro-electric development is occurring in many of the susu 's favourite remaining areas . |
| 16 | For the majority of building , wood was the chief material and little has survived , though rebuilding has often been in similar traditional style . |
| 17 | It has n't been in the , I cover , but I have some information you gave me , it has n't been in that at all , mm . |
| 18 | Er we trust if the post is doubled in the way it has frequently been in recent years and indeed was in my case , the Chancellor of the Duchy in brackets also as the Chairman of the Conservative Party to maintain the dignitary of the magistracy to make sure that there is a firm balance amongst magistrates who are appointed . |
| 19 | Pierce finishes off with a ghostly version of the great Skip James ' ‘ Hardtime Killin' Floor Blues ’ , one last acoustic cry before the tape runs out and proof positive that the blues has never been in better hands . |
| 20 | Although rural housing , as we shall see later in this chapter , has never been in plentiful supply , the newcomers provide an easy scapegoat for the otherwise ‘ hidden hand ’ of the housing market . |
| 21 | ‘ That last has never been in any doubt . |
| 22 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 23 | He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective . |
| 24 | To imagine for the last time the forests and oceans , green and alive , the way they 'd always been in historical dramas . |
| 25 | Mind you , he 'd never been in good health , not since they sent him home from France . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd never been in this room before . |
| 27 | She could n't remember having actually been in one and anyway , they rarely came Past Mrs Parvis 's lodgings . |
| 28 | The implication was that the slaughter had all been in vain . |
| 29 | And she had n't got whatever it was he wanted , so it had all been in vain . |
| 30 | The OEO Agent had obviously been in continuous pain by the end of their long , slow hike , and Bernice was able to boost the feed of chemicals provided by Defries 's combat suit . |